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Kim,
(Producer)
After graduating from The University of Chicago, Eric became the first Korean American agent in Hollywood. Eric worked for five years as a literary agent at a Hollywood talent & literary agency. Eric developed a stable of fifteen writers working in film and television. Agency clients serviced by Eric include Robert Rodat (SAVING PRIVATE RYAN starring Tom Hanks and THE PATRIOT starring Mel Gibson), Michael Colleary (FACE/OFF starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage), Mike Scully (Executive Producer, THE SIMPSONS), and Aline Brosh McKenna (27 DRESSES starring Katherine Heigl and DEVIL WEARS PRADA starring Meryl Streep.)
Eric formed EK Management to further his clients' growing needs. Under his guidance, Eric's clients have commenced projects at companies including Universal, Paramount, Columbia, New Line Cinema, Focus Features, Neal Moritz’s Original Films, Jodie Foster's Egg Pictures, Robert Zemeckis’ ImageMovers, and Wolfgang Petersen's Radiant Productions. Craig Gerber’s ZOOPORT was recently set up at Universal Pictures with Radar Pictures (THE LAST SAMURAI) and Stephen Sommers (THE MUMMY) attached to produce and, possibly, direct. Clients formerly managed by Eric include Justin Zackham (BUCKET LIST starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman), Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman (AMERICAN SPLENDOR – winner of the 2003 Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize and nominated for Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay, and THE NANNY DIARIES starring Scarlett Johansson), and Matt Allen & Caleb Wilson (FOUR CHRISTMASES starring Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn).
As a producer, Eric produced an independent comedy feature, GOING GREEK (Dylan Bruno, Laura Harris, Oliver Hudson, Chris Owen, Susan Ward; picked up by SHOWTIME) written & directed by Justin Zackham (BUCKET LIST) and UNDOING, a crime thriller set in Los Angeles, written & directed by Chris Chan Lee (YELLOW). Eric is currently in development with a sci-fi action/adventure OPERATION: REVERSE GRAVITY written by Bradley Cramp, who exec produced LORD OF WAR starring Nicolas Cage and SIMONE starring Al Pacino and a sci-fi action/adventure HALCYON written by Craig Gerber. |
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Bradley
Cramp
(Producer/Writer)
As Vice President and Creative Director of Niccol Films Inc., the production company of Oscar-nominated writer/director Andrew Niccol, Bradley Cramp has overseen the development and production of such motion pictures as LORD OF WAR (starring Nicolas Cage), SIMONE (starring Al Pacino, Catherine Keener; released by New Line Cinema), THE TERMINAL (starring Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones; released by DreamWorks), THE TRUMAN SHOW (starring Jim Carrey; released by Paramount Pictures) and GATTACA (starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman; released by Columbia Pictures).
He served as Executive Producer on the feature film LORD OF WAR, a $50 million dollar international co-production shot on location in New York, South Africa, and the Czech Republic. Lions Gate Films released the movie domestically. Additionally, Bradley served as Executive Producer on the dark comedy SIMONE for New Line Cinema.
Bradley began his film and television career in 1995 working as an assistant to producer Charles Roven during the making of Terry Gilliam's 12 MONKEYS. He went on to become the Production Supervisor of GATTACA for Columbia Pictures and Jersey Films, working with Andrew Niccol on his feature film debut.
Bradley graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.F.A. from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he majored in Film and Television Production.
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David
Covell
(Writer/Director)
David Covell is a veteran screenwriter with
extensive experience in the motion picture industry. His original
screenplay, You Lucky Dog, became a very successful comedy
for The Disney Channel, and his original screenplay, Gator Face,
was a comedy hit for Showtime. Covell has also written and directed
several short films, including a parody of The Sixth Sense
that won praise from film critics such as ABC’s George Pennacchio.
Covell currently has several other scripts in various stages of development,
including DON’T FEED THE ANDERSONS. |
Hoyt
Hilsman
(Writer/Producer)
Hoyt Hilsman is an award-winning playwright
and screenwriter. He has written films for New Line, Sony, ABC, CBS
and others, including FATHER AND SCOUT, AIR GOLDBERG and LOMBARDI
ON LOVE. His plays have been produced at theaters around the country.
STENDHAL was a finalist at the prestigious O’Neill Playwrights
Center, had an award-winning production in Los Angeles, and was later
adapted into the musical DESTINY, which premiered at Lincoln Center
in Colorado. Most recently, he created, wrote and produced DEADLY
EMBRACE, a 12-episode web thriller that premiered on the internet
entertainment site, z.com. He also has been a regular critic for DAILY
VARIETY and contributor to LA TIMES, LOS ANGELES MAGAZINE, HEMISPHERES
and other national publications. He is currently President of the
Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle. |
Craig
Gerber
Craig
Gerber is a screenwriter and award-winning short filmmaker. After
graduating from the USC School of Cinema-Television's Filmic Writing
Program, he set up his first screenplay at Walt Disney Pictures.
Shortly thereafter, he set up an action/adventure script at Wolfgang
Petersen's Radiant Productions.
In 2003, he
wrote and directed the short film, HANG TIME, which played at over
35 film festivals worldwide and received numerous awards, including
Best Narrative Short and Best Digital Short.
Gerber recently
set up a family sci-fi script, ZOOPORT, at Universal Studios, with
director Stephen Sommers and Radar Pictures (THE LAST SAMURAI) attached
to produce. He is currently writing a supernatural horror/thriller
for Universal Studios' genre division, Rogue Pictures.
He lives in
Los Angeles, California with his wife and laptop.
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Chris
Chan Lee (Writer/Director/Producer)
Chris has just completed a one-year stint in
Singapore directing television at MEDIACORP STUDIOS for English-language
primetime tv series. He directed GROWING UP, (Season 5, Eps 10, 11,
17, 18), a popular one hour family drama. He is fortunate to have
worked with some of the best actors in Singapore on this show, which
has just been nominated for Best Television Drama (as well as two
best acting nominations) in this year’s ASIAN TELEVISION AWARDS
(Asia’s Emmys, inclusive of Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan,
and Southeast Asia). He recently directed five episodes of MOULMEIN
HIGH, a 1/2 hour ensemble dramedy set at a fictitious Singapore high
school. Chris’ first episode of MH, which aired October 30th,
garnered the highest ratings ever for that show in its two seasons
running. He directed the pilot episode of an ensemble soccer comedy,
BALL SENSE, which has just been ordered for a full season.
Prior to his television work, Chris wrote/directed
the feature film YELLOW, a $150K budgeted independent that was released
theatrically in the U.S. by Phaedra Cinema and worldwide by Cinema
Arts. Selected for over a dozen film festivals, including the Slamdance
Dramatic Competition 1998, Singapore International 1998, Los Angeles
Independent Film Festival 1997, and world premiered at NAATA’s
1997 SF Asian American Int’l Film Festival. Yellow won the
1999 GOLDEN RING AWARD for Best Asian American Independent Film
and the 1997 GOLD CARP 1st PLACE AUDIENCE AWARD at the 6th Annual
Seattle Asian American Film Festival. He directed music videos for
Asian-American hip hop artists MOUNTAIN BROTHERS and the Chicago-based
indie-rock band SEAM, which have aired on MTV and other stations.
Chris was born and raised in San Francisco and graduated
from the USC School of Cinema/Television in Los Angeles.
Chris just directed his second feature, UNDOING, a crime thriller starring Sung Kang, Kelly Hu, Russell Wong, Leonardo Nam, and Bobby Lee.
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Charles
Surran
(Writer/Producer)
Charles Surran has had several scripts optioned
by major Hollywood producers including Michael Phillips (Close
Encounters of the Third Kind), Jerry Weintraub (Karate Kid),
and Al Ruddy (The Godfather). His script Broken Field won the
American Cinema Foundation Screenwriting Award and was a finalist
for an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Nicholl Fellowship
in Screenwriting (top 10 out of 4000+). Before becoming a writer,
Surran graduated from Duke University (where he played varsity baseball)
and the University of Southern California School of Cinema. At USC,
Surran wrote and produced three award winning student films while
teaching both producing and screenwriting. |
David
Van Vleck (Writer)
After training
as an actor at The Lee Strasberg Institute and The Actors Studio in
New York City, David Van Vleck worked for Al Pacino for four years,
then began writing screenplays. Katharine Hepburn became attached
to star in a feature script of David’s, “Hope”, partnering
with him to try to produce the film. David’s script, “The
Orphan Dream”, (now Forsaken Seoul) was a Finalist in the Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Nicholl Fellowships. Sir
Derek Jacobi (I, Claudius; Gladiator) and the great stage/film actress
Rosemary Harris (SPIDER-MAN 1 & 2) have offered to play leads
in feature scripts of David’s. David also writes novels and stage
plays. |
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